The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

It Wasn’t About Oil, and It Wasn’t About the Free Market: Why We Invaded Iraq

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad's new book not only interrogates the motivations behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but also reveals a cautionary tale for the present.

Danny Postel

Labor

Michigan GOP State Rep Aims to Outlaw Key Measure Ensuring Working People Benefit from Development

Jonathan Brozdowski

Labor

Did Jimmy John’s Fire Yet Another Worker for Supporting a Union?

Bruce Vail

Labor

Oil Striker: “None of us wants to be the next person to lose his life for no good reason”

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Labor

Striking Oil Workers Say They’re Fighting Deadly Working Conditions

Rebecca Burns

Viewpoint

Parameters of Respectability

Syriza makes U.S. media elites uncomfortable.

Joel Bleifuss

Labor

Germany Just Passed Its First-Ever Minimum Wage Law—And It Covers Interns

Amien Essif

Comics

Why Are You Unvaccinated?

Matt Bors

Labor

Billionaire Gov. Bruce Rauner Declares War on Illinois State Unions Through Executive Order

David Moberg